Background : Among a number of social habits, smoking is an important factor of human health to prevent related disease morbidity and death. It is essential for family physicians to participate in this subject considering the influence of smoking on life pattern or one's behavior as well as smoking itself, physician should keep above aspects in mind through smoking consultation session. therefore, this report is to elaborate the correlations between smoking and the other health activities. Method: The survey was performed to those who had their health examined at an university hospital and a general hospital during the period between April and May, 1995. Smoking group(male:141, female:14, total:155) and nonsmoking group(male:141, female:18, total:159) were rando-mly selected among those who had answered to the survery(total:650). The questionnaire of the survey consisted of 12 categories and 25 questions to evaluate health score graded 0 point to 4 point according to interpreted version of Wilosn's FANTASTIC Lifestyle Assessment. Result: The health score of smoking group was lower than that of nonsmoking group in terms of alcohol, exercise, toxin, stress and personality. Nevertheless, the grade between 2 groups was family and friends. Total score of smoking group(68.2 out of 100). The longer the period of smoking was and the more cigarettes one smoked, the lower total health point he had. The onset of smoking, however, is insignifa-ntly related to the health status.
Conclusion : This report shows that concerning the relationship between smoking and other health behaviours, physician must take not only tratment of disease and smoking, but other health behaviours into consideration.